Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Compiling my favorite songs from 2009, I realized there were way too many to fit in one show. So I made two shows. This week is dedicated to the runners-up. Stay tuned for my best of the best of 2009 playlist on December 30th.

Best of 2009 - Honorable Mentions

Devendra Banhart "Can't Help But Smiling" from "What Will Be Be" Ceu "Bebuia" from "Vagarosa" Bon Iver and St. Vincent "Roslyn" from "New Moon Soundtrack" Iggy Pop "Les Feuilles Mortes" from "Preliminaires" Jarvis Cocker "Angela" from "Further Complications" A.C. Newman "There are maybe ten or twelve" from "Get Guilty" Wilco "You and I" from "Wilco the album" Thao With the Get Down Stay Down "Know Better Learn Faster" from "Know Better Learn Faster" The Flaming Lips "Worm Mountain" from "Embryonic" Phoenix "Liszxtomania" from "Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix" Royksopp "Happy Up Here" from "Junior" Beirut "My Wife, Lost in the Wood" from "March of the Zapotec" Monsters of Folk "Dear God" from "Monsters Of Folk" Regina Spektor "Laughing With" from "Far" Portland Cello Project "Geography" from "The Thao & Justin Power Sessions" Lake "Breathing" from "Let's Build a Roof" Taken by Trees "Watch the Waves" from "East of Eden" Speck Mountain "Twinlines" from "Some Sweet Relief" Yo La Tengo "Here To Fall" from "Popular Songs" Metric "Gimme Sympathy" from "Fantasies" The Hidden Cameras "In The NA" from "Origin: Orphan" Peter Bjorn and John "Nothing to Worry About" from "Living Thing" Neon Indian "Laughing Gas" from "Psychic Chasm" The Apples in Stereo "King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 3" from "Score! 20 Years of Merge Records" Tune-Yards "Sunlight" from "Bird Brains" The Clientele "Harvest Time" from "Bonfires on the Heath" Yonlu "I know what it's like" from "A Society in Which No Tear Is Shed Is Inconceivably Mediocre" Beaujolais "All my Exorcisms" from "Admirations" Wavves "Sun Opens My Eyes" from "Wavvves" Datarock "Give it Up" from "Datarock" Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros "40 Day Dream" from "Up From Below"